Expanding and making the U.S. Supreme Court less political, as some Democratic presidential candidates suggest, may be too complex as a campaign theme to motivate their base and may actually wind up helping President Donald Trump get re-elected.
Law and political science experts raised those points on Friday in a discussion on political strategy and the concept of courts as a mechanism for progressive change at the American Constitution Society’s annual convention in Washington.
While Republicans have done so successfully, Democrats historically haven’t made courts a campaign issue nationally. But some are testing the waters with these themes in early ...
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